NASA announced yesterday that it will resume launching astronauts into space using two American companies, Boeing and SpaceX. This will be done to stop our reliance on the Russians to launch astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
Boeing will be using its CST-100 spacecraft and SpaceX will be using the Crew Dragon spacecraft. NASA is currently using SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to send supplies to the ISS.
This is good news for NASA as it may be the first step to making space travel privatized in the US instead of making space travel exclusively for military and the government.
News of the announcement is here on the NASA website.
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